Wibe frame



June 26, 1923.

J. J. WILLIAMS W RE, FRAME" Original Filed July 29, 1916 a provements in Wire Frames,

v gether so as Reissued June 26, 1923.

UNITED STATES JESSE J. WILLIAMS, OI UTICA, NEW YORK.

WIRE FRAME.

Original 1T0. 1,302,888, dated Kay 6, 1919, Serial No. 112,079, filed July 29 1916. Application for reissue and May 12, 1921. Serial no. 469,076.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnssn -J. WILLIAMS, of Utica, county of Oneida, State of New York, have invented new and useful Imof which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,'1s a full, clear, and exact description. 7

This invention" relates to wire frame 10 structures, such, for instance, as are employed as the foundation for floral designs. These frames or foundations are usually made up of a number of wires shaped to the desired desi to rm what is intended to be a rigid structure. The connections where one wire engages and intersects another,

have heretofore been made by the use of separately formed tie-wires, said tie-wires" 2o simply spiraling along the main wires and aboutthe intersecting portions. This mannerrof securing the mam wires together is of course tedious and, at best, does not result in as-substantial and rigid a structure' as is desirable.

The object of the present invention, there,

fore, is to provide a frame wherein the main I wires are secured together in immovable relation to each other, so as to form a rigid structure, and, further, to provide a frame wherein the use of tie-wires is entirely avoided.

Other objects and aims of the invention,

more or, less specific than those referred to above, willbe in part obvious and: in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations,

arran ments of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention; and

the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification,

and in which I have shown a merely re ferred form of embodiment of the invention:

The figure is a view in perspective of a frame constructed in accordance with the provisions of this invention. I

Referrin to the drawing, the reference '50 numeral 1 enotes generally a frame formed and being connected tosaid frame being held together by brace PATENT, OFFICE.

wires 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The end brace wires 6 and 10 extending completely around the ends ofthe wires; said frame being elongated and rectangula in cross-section. The reference numeral 11 denotes another elongated frame formed by the wires 12, 13, 14 and 15. This frame is also provided with brace wires indicated at 16, 17, 18 and 19. Frame 11 is extendedthrough frame 1 so as to form a conventional cross. The wires of the respective frames where they cross each other are welded together preferably by electrical heat, that is, the are electrically weldedtogether. It wi be noted that the adjacent portions of the outlying wires serve as braces for the respective outlying wires of the respective frames.

It will be apparent .that in the welding operations the adjacent portions of the parts welded become merged into each other, and in effect become as integral parts of eachother so that no ossible movement of one relatively to the ot er may occur.

Each frame constitutes a skeleton box like or trough like structure which in theillustration is substantially rectangular but it is evident that it may, be made in various other forms and that they may be assembled in other relations without d'e arting from the spirit of this invention, and therefore, I do not wish to limit myself to the particular construction shown and described.

What I claim is:

A florists form comprising a pair of frames rectangular in cross section, each frame comprising outline wires and brace wires, one of said frames bein disposed within the other and at right ang es thereto, the adjacent portions of the outline wires serving as braces for the respective outline wires of the respective'frames.

In witness whereof I" have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of April, 1921.

,. JESSE J. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses: ,3

AGNES SHAW. I I, 4 i, I

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